Description

This seminar piggy-backs off an annual update, “English Shipping Law”, which have been contributed by the speaker since 2001 and published in the International Maritime & Commercial Law Yearbook (part of Lloyd’s Maritime & Commercial Law Quarterly). The seminar will, however, also include consideration of judgments handed down both other courts, notably those in Singapore. 2017 was a record year, with three shipping judgments handed down by the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom covering general average, damages following early redelivery by a time charterer, and safe ports (The Longchamp; The New Flamenco; and The Ocean Victory), and two collision cases, one in England (The Alexandra 1 and Ever Smart) and one in Singapore (The Dream Star). Also in the frame are three appellate level judgments, on the NYPE Interclub Agreement, the effect of delivery against a release note containing a pin code, and “subject review” in the context of a charterparty fixture (The Yangtze Xing Hua; Glencore International AG v MSC Mediterranean Shipping Co SA; and Toptip Holding Pte Ltd v Mercuria Energy Trading Pte Ltd) and several first instance judgments, inter alia on the Hague and Hague-Visby Rules (The Lady M; Kyokuyo Co Ltd v AP Møller-Maersk A/S) and admiralty arrests (The Eurohope; The MV Ross Revenge). Inevitably, some of the cases will be considered in greater detail; where possible, cursory reference may be made to other reported cases in Australia, England, and Hong Kong, and not included in the detailed discussion.

About The Speaker

Professor Stephen Girvin is a tenured full Professor of Law at the National University of Singapore, MPA Professor of Maritime Law, and Director of the Centre for Maritime Law. He is author of Carriage of Goods by Sea 2nd ed (OUP, 2011), a co-author Marsden’s Collisions at Sea 14th ed (Sweet & Maxwell, 2016) and Carver on Charterparties (Sweet & Maxwell, 2017), and a contributing author of The Rotterdam Rules in the Asia-Pacific Region (Shojihomu, 2014), A New Convention for the Carriage of Goods by Sea: The Rotterdam Rules (Lawtext, 2009), and Liability Regimes in Contemporary Maritime Law (Informa, 2007). He is a member of the editorial committee of the International Maritime and Commercial Law Yearbook, Singapore correspondent for Lloyd’s Maritime & Commercial Law Quarterly, and a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of International Maritime Law (Lawtext). Stephen speaks regularly at international conferences, in recent years in Beijing, Dalian, Hong Kong, Panama, Seoul, Shanghai, Sydney, and Tokyo, and in Aberdeen, Bergen, Copenhagen, Hamburg, London, Oslo, Rotterdam, and Stockholm. He is a member of the Singapore Maritime Law Association and the British Maritime Law Association, a Supporting Member of the London Maritime Arbitrators Association, and an Associate Fellow of the Nautical Institute.

Who Should Attend

Lawyers, In-house counsel and legal officers working in the maritime industry and in commercial trade, ship owners, banks and financial institutions, freight forwarders, traders, charterers, forwarders and those handling claims arising in maritime and commercial contexts.